This should be an obvious one - but just because I’ve found ways to make it work doesn’t mean I’m doing it right. Given an existing wired network and I want to add a wireless AP - what is the “correct” way to setup that new AP?
Assuming some flavor of a hAP, where the new device includes multiple ethernet ports as well as wireless, how should it be configured - assuming there’s no need for any kind of network segregation? So all the wireless clients, and any hardwired clients on that AP, should be connected to the same network as the rest of the hardwired network.
Typically I’d connect the AP to the network via ether1 (just as a convention) and put all the ports into a bridge. Done. But…given the above minimal/lack of segregation is there any reason to leave ether1 out of the bridge and forward the packets via…firewall rules?